Questions and Exercises

  1. Why is education not satisfactorily defined by saying that it is a preparation for complete living? Who first stated this definition?
  2. What is the relation of the school to complete living?
  3. What further training should the school give in better living than to teach the pupils what it is?
  4. Give an idea of what is meant by incomplete living so far as the body is concerned.
  5. Show that soundness of body is necessary to realize one’s best.
  6. What are some reasons for the scarcity of physically perfect men and women?
  7. Have we been able to eliminate physical defects and develop physical merits in people to the same extent that we have in domestic animals?
  8. What are some of the things that have been done to improve physical man? Which of these have to do primarily with heredity and which with rearing or training?
  9. Why is the possession of healthy bodies a matter of national concern?
  10. Wherein does physical training seem to have failed to attain its ends?
  11. What are the arguments, from the standpoint of the physically efficient life, for the regulation or prohibition by the government of the sale of injurious products?
  12. What are the benefits of such a type of training as military training?
  13. Show how the lack of proper training of the mind may result in a less efficient body.
  14. In our present civilization what conditions may give rise to mental thralldom? Upon what is mental freedom conditioned?
  15. How can the trained mind get the most out of life and contribute the most to it?
  16. Explain how the spirit is the dominant element in complete living.
  17. Why is one who is living the complete life sure to be altruistic?

CHAPTER XII